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I gave up driving 10.years ago because of cost ,& environment mostly .can get where i need to go on busses , trains , 66 was magic ave to gst bus pass

My mother is impressive in many ways
Still gardens & clears publuc footpaths  &  chops wood

She takes a fold up chair in case she tires ,& has an electric chain saw .

People often assume that we arecsisters despite the 30 yesr afe gap

Here is the Barnsley Dynasty of
 Willam. STOTT  b1845 


I usually mark direct ancesters by capital surnames and add a star in suffix box after surname for every child thru whom there is a DNA connection

Good morning all from a wet ,& windy leicester UK

Ive not posted on this board for a while .january has been depressing due to weather & 1 personal issue

On the plus side my mother aged 95 has been able to move back into her house after last year s flood & got her exhorbitant car.insurance reduced dramatically by adding my sister to her policy

Insurers dont like people who have had last car written off due to flood water & they dont like elderly drivers .
I thought she might give up driving ,& use taxis & bus but living in a village & highly independant she decided to keep driving in 2025 ,& this year too. Perfect eyesight & heart so no reason not to

Local TV interviewed her a year after the flood . My sister appeared on the clip too looking at photos they.d taken every week of the clear up progress

Shes driving me to leicester museum.tomorrow where there is an exhibition of local peoples art ..including childrens categories .

Have just worked out how my cousin relates to the STOTT children who died

His great grandfather William STOTT  1870 was the brother of Hearty STOTT 1875 father of 2 children who died
The great grand daughter of the surviving brother told  me that the family did carry the grief for generations .
The new match is a granddaughter descended from.a younger child.

So my cousins grandfather was their cousin .

He wasnt.completely  estranged if he was on the census with the family when Edith was 4 months old
But they might have decided to separate by then and he was staying there for convenience and  to be with his other children . As a sailor he probably had long periods away so would know if Edith was Not his

I think youre right to assume Jethro wasnt the father ..

DNA could resolve if it was actually a Charles Cocks ...are there any cousins by that name ?

* or did jethro marry a relation elizabeth coomber who was adopted by cocks family 

FORMERLY  is what my grandmothers marriage certificate says with surname of her adoptive family ( she may not have known she was adopted til she married )

I had a quick look at trees on ancestry

None of them have included any of Ediths children ..and several have her born in Davenport Australia . !
 
So no leads there about what became of john .edith or Thomas